Everything about Bourdon Bell totally explained
The
bourdon is the heaviest of the
bells that belong to a musical instrument, especially a
chime or a
carillon, and produces its lowest tone.
As an example, there's a carillon of 64 bells, the sixth largest bell hanging in the world, in the Southern Illinois town of
Centralia. The largest bell is identified as the 'bourdon', it weighs 11,000 pounds and is tuned to G. The Centralia Carillon was a single-handed project of the late
William V. Joy, publisher of the
Centralia Evening Sentinel, and was completed in 1986.
The biggest bell serving as bourdon of any carillon is the low C bell at
Riverside Church,
New York City. Cast in 1929 as part of the
Rockefeller Carillon, it weighs 41,000 pounds and measures 10 feet, 2 inches across. This is also the largest tuned bell ever cast.
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